the acquisition of New Vision's shared services agreement with PBC Broadcasting, giving LIN operational control of KTKA-TV. LIN and Vaughan Media (which concurrently purchased the PBC stations) also entered into a joint sales agreement to provide advertising services for KTKA. The sale of New Vision to LIN Media and KTKA's purchase by Vaughan Media was approved by the FCC on October 2, with the transaction closing on October 12, 2012. The deal marked a re-entry into Kansas for LIN, who briefly owned the licenses of Wichita ABC affiliate KAKE and its satellites in 2000, but never held operational control of the stations. On March 21, 2014, Media General announced that it would purchase the LIN Media stations, including KSNT, KTMJ-CD, and the SSA/JSA with KTKA-TV, in a $1.6 billion merger. The FCC approved the merger on December 12, 2014, with the deal being consummated on December 19; however as a condition of the sale's approval, Media General was originally required to terminate the joint sales agreement between KTKA-TV and KSNT within two years, due to the FCC's ban on agreements involving the sale of advertising encompassing more than 15% of a separately-owned station's airtime. The FCC canceled the licenses for KMJT-LP (on April 3, 2017) and KETM-LP (on April 27, 2017). Programming KTMJ-CD carries the entire Fox programming schedule; however, it is one of a few Fox affiliates that does not carry the network-syndicated Xploration Station block, opting to carry educational children's programming acquired from the syndication market on Saturday mornings. Syndicated programs broadcast on KTMJ () include The Big Bang Theory, Hot Bench, Friends, The People's Court, and The Kelly Clarkson Show. Newscasts KSNT presently produces 13½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week for KTMJ-CD (consisting of 2½ hours each weekday and a half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays); the weekend editions of the 9:00 p.m. newscast are occasionally preempted on certain Saturday and/or Sunday evenings whenever Fox schedules sports programming in prime time that is expected to run into that hour, as KSNT cannot air the program on delay due to its late-evening news simulcast on KSNT and KTKA-TV. KTMJ-CD, as a Junction City-based station, began broadcasting local news programming in 1988, running news updates focusing on Junction City and Manhattan; the station launched a half-hour prime time newscast at 9:00 p.m. in 1995. After KTMJ moved its call letters and operations to Topeka in 2001, the